05-16-2025
03:26 PM
- last edited on
05-17-2025
11:42 AM
by
Danny
My Pixma G2520 is able to print some really nice pictures. However with default settings, they look washed out. The main difference is the gray looking black. In person it's not quite as bad as it looks on these scans, but it's still bad. And especially the printed Blade Runner poster looks really bad.
The good scan you see in the picture was created, if I remember correctly, by selecting my PC's default sRGB profile under printer menu > Main > Color/Intensity > Manual Color Adjustment > Matching > ICM > Profile (don't remember if Input Profile or Printer Profile). But now, that dropdown menu does not even show up.
Everything is printed on regular HP 90g office paper/plain paper.
What I tried:
I spent so many hours on this. Hopefully I can get some help here. It's driving me crazy how I clearly got a good result once but now no matter what I do it all looks terrible.
I added some scans to show the differences.
05-16-2025 08:27 PM
Your nozzle check doesn’t look correct. Does the actual test print show those colors in the black section?
05-16-2025 08:41 PM
They look perfect in person. I scanned with 300dpi, which causes the thin lines to block some subpixels when scanning but not others. So that's why it looks like this here, but in person they're perfect. Completely black, sharp and nothing missing.
05-16-2025 08:58 PM
OK. Have any computer changes occurred from when it worked and now?
05-16-2025 09:01 PM
Same computer. I printed the good print a week ago. Nothing changed since then until yesterday, when I started troubleshooting this issue, reinstaling drivers and so on.
I can also add I tried selecting the 2060 series driver for the printer and the ICC profiles also don't show up.
And I tried selecting NT EMF as data type for the print processor instead of RAW and it also still doesn't show the menu to select the ICC profile.
05-16-2025 10:45 PM
I think something is wrong with just the printer not using the black ink for black sections. Because you can see how much the black areas change when I changed the color intensities. So I suspect it is not using the black pigment at all and just using the colors to create black, which does not create a deep black at all.
Also I inspected the default Canon ICC profile and it doesn't look too different from standard sRGB, so I don't think that should matter.
05-17-2025 06:27 AM
Give Canon support a call. You've performed all the troubleshooting I can think of.
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